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Bob Dylan emerged from nowhere, like an alien. And that was just the start.

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Steve Earle
Age: 69
Born: 1955
Born: January 17
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I was comparatively late in understanding Bob Dylan's overwhelming importance as a songwriter. Everybody who does my job exists in the shadow of Bob Dylan. There are two categories: Dylan and everybody else. It's as simple as that. And it's going to be that way until he dies.
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I still write more songs about girls than anything else.
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My therapist says that I choose women that I couldn't possibly succeed in a relationship with because I really want to be alone. Which sounds complicated and convoluted to me, but I don't know. Maybe she's right. There's a part of me that wants that.
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Actually, in its purest form, Islam is incredibly tolerant. That makes what's going on in the world really bizarre.
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I don't really think in terms of obstacles. My biggest obstacle is always myself.
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What songwriting does better than almost anything is empathy - it's incredibly empathetic. The reason people sat around in bars when they were bummed out and listened to country songs is because it made them feel better in the long run.
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I'm used to writing stories with a beginning a middle and an end in four minutes.
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If I can get Me out of the way, I can do anything.
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There's a long tradition of people from the South living in New York City.
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I'm not a Democrat I'm something well to the left of a Democrat, but I'm just realistic about the system.
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You make decisions, and that's what separates art from some other pop music. It doesn't mean that you can't make an embarrassing amount of money, for a borderline Marxist, doing something that you love, but it does mean that this huge pool of money that was out there when I started making records in the '80s is gone.
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By the time I wrote those first three songs for his new CD ... I wanted to push the poetics as hard as I could push them, and not decide the songs were finished until I committed them to whatever the recording format was. I went through drafts right up until I recorded every single one of them.
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Sympathetic characters usually have a voice. They usually don't have any trouble being heard.
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It's incredibly irresponsible to allow victims' family members to witness executions.
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My objection to the death penalty is based on the idea that this is a democracy, and in a democracy the government is me, and if the government kills somebody then I'm killing somebody.
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Or you can be like the Soviet Union, start out with ideals, and end up ceasing to exist.
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Part of it is, I think, just to let people know you've got a record out there and that you're still alive requires more work than it used to, because the traditional radio, bug chains of record stores, all of that, that doesn't exist anymore.
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You see things differently at 40 than you do at 31. Especially if you got to 40 the way I did.
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At home, I'm lucky if I can write three or four hours before the phone starts ringing and the kids want to go to soccer.
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I don't think I'm a political songwriter as much as I am just a political person. I think it's in my fabric.
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